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The Oregon Alliance for Gun Safety is a coalition of like-minded organizations focused on ending the public health crisis of gun violence in Oregon through the expansion of criminal background checks for gun purchases. Learn more about us >

The Oregon Alliance for Gun Safety delivered today a petition signed by 3,882 individuals calling on Governor Kate Brown and Oregon Legislators to take action on gun violence. The Alliance is pursing three legislative priorities this year to reduce gun violence in Oregon.

32 Oregon Representatives voted “Yes” on Senate Bill 941 – the Oregon Firearms Safety Act. This vital law expands background checks to the sale of every firearm in Oregon.

Background checks uphold the Second Amendment while preventing guns from getting into dangerous hands—those of dangerous felons and domestic abusers.

Background checks prevent gun sales to felons, domestic abusers, the dangerously mentally ill, and other prohibited persons. This new law will ensure that "private sellers” — who can sell up to 25 firearms at a time — follow the same background check rules as Oregon’s gun dealers and gun show exhibitors.

The vast majority–87 percent–of Oregon voters support background checks, including those who own guns (83 percent).

In Oregon, background checks cost only $10 and are usually completed in less than five minutes over the phone by the Oregon State Police.

Use the form below to send an email to the State Representatives who voted YES on SB 941

Thank them for their support for this common-sense law that will save lives.